Edgewood Health & Rehabilitation

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Not many nursing homes fared better in that category. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care is its second most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 93.86667 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a decent figure. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. There are a variety of subcategories included in this grade. Most of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The next category we graded is short-term care, which turned out to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a D in that category. Unfortunately, this score hurt the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place offers less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.